Magic + Loss

Magic + Loss

Hating 'wokes' is a nice rebrand for hating women

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Virginia Heffernan
Nov 14, 2022
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Have you ever asked yourself this question:

How did so many standard mild-mannered “centrist” men—the kind you went to college with—end up making common cause with far-right freaks like Ron DeSantis and Tom Cotton? 

I ask myself this all the time. And especially today, now that Ron “Don’t Say Gay” DeSantis is the big winner of the midterms.

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